Can Mother Teresa, a non-Muslim, go to heaven?

"She can't go to heaven? But she saved thousands of lives." PHOTO: AFP

The recent killings of Shias and blasphemy charges against a young Christian girl are not a product of some foreign militant group terrorising our peaceful land.

The incidents of violence against minorities and sectarian groups are largely a result of the ideology that exists in all corners of our society. Whether you are a liberal or conservative, educated or ignorant, we all share the blame for such incidents.

On this very topic, a heated argument in my class erupted when I asked a simple question to my students:

“Is Mother Teresa going to heaven?”

To my surprise, more than 80% of this educated elite answered the question with a vehement ‘no’. All of those who answered in the negative explained that while Mother Teresa was a noble woman, she was not a Muslim and, hence, could not enter heaven. This ideology is the first step towards the action of violence and brutality.

Below is a dialogue with one of my students who represented this school of thought:

Student: “Well, she was to be rewarded for that in this world, but one can’t enter heaven until he/she says the Kalima.”

“So you’re saying only the Muslims are going to heaven, no matter how evil they are?”

Student: “Yes, evil Muslims will be punished for some time, and will be sent to heaven after the punishment.”

“So, when you die, you’re going to go to heaven no matter what you do in this world, just because you we’re born a Muslim?

Student: “Yes, precisely!”

“Did you decide where you were born?”

Student: “No.”

“Who decided that?”

Student: “God.”

“So, God has already decided at your birth that you’re going to heaven; whereas Mother Teresa, having saved thousands of lives, will be going to hell?”

Student: “Err… I think so. God has said it in numerous places in the Holy Quran. Had the ‘message’ reached her and she converted to Islam, she would have been able to enter paradise.”

“Is accepting the message more important, or following the message?”

Student: “Following it, of course.”

“Do you think you follow the message of Islam?”

Student: “Well, I try to, but I don’t think so.”

“Do you think Mother Teresa followed the message of Islam?”

Student: “Umm, well she didn’t offer namaz or read the Holy Quran, but she did follow the message.”

“So, she still can’t go to heaven after having followed the message of Islam?”

Student: “I don’t know. I’ll have to do further research on that.”

“Forget that. Have you read the Holy Quran?”

Student (enthusiastically) : “Yes!”

“With translation or only the Arabic text?”

Student: “Arabic only.”

“How do you claim that something is written in the Holy Quran when you have not really read it?”

Student: “I don’t know. I’ve heard about it.”

“So, Mother Teresa is going to hell because you’ve heard from somebody that it is written in the Holy Quran, who probably heard it from somebody else?”

Student: “Hmm.”

“You’re basically assuming that it is written in the Holy Quran, and assuming that Mother Teresa is not going to heaven.”

Student (frustrated) : “I don’t know.”

“Do you accept that without reading or understanding the Holy Quran, whatever you claim about it is mere assumption?”

Student: “Yes.”

“Good. So, can Mother Teresa possibly go to heaven now that you’re not God, and do not have the absolute knowledge about the day after?”

Student: “I don’t know, may be?”

This dialogue depicts one of the root cause of most of the sectarian and religious problems in Pakistan. Our beliefs and knowledge about the world has been told to us by someone who heard them from somebody else, and so on. In our culture, the idea of self-exploration does not exist and people have taken beliefs and ideas to be for granted.

Moreover, we are so bogged down into petty debates that we have lost track of what really is important for our survival. We need to really get over and beyond the petty debate about who is going to hell or heaven. There is a desperate need to change the narrative and debate in our households, classrooms, and most importantly, our media, so we can start thinking about issues that are urgent and real. As long as our debate doesn’t change, we will continue to discriminate against other sects and religions.

But this is the truth. Non-muslims (especially pageon Hindus) can never go to heaven no matter how good they are.Recommend

Raheel Zubairi

This article is a complete reflection of lack of knowledge about Islam and what rules Allah and Rusool has set for the humanity.
You can continue to write about who goes to heaven or hell, but the ultimate deciding authority is Allah, The Supreme.
Stop caring about Mother Teresa or Hitler going to heaven for saving children or killing jews which is a good thing for muslims. Start caring about if you are going to heaven or not.Recommend

KJ

This is one of the major flaw in all of the abrahamic faiths. More then half of the humanity will be roasted in hell for ever for a predetermined life. Sadistic or what ?Recommend

BlackJack

The fact is that this is not an issue that is relevant only to Islam, although its adherents are often more willing to kill non-believers if they cannot save their souls. All Abrahamic religions believe that they hold the eternal copyright on God, and infringers are pagans or infidels. This is the main issue that Eastern religions cannot stomach, and this is what brings conversion and its related hatred/ bigotry/ incompatibility with the outside world into the picture. There is no solution as it is written in the holy book; questioning this is to question the basic tenets of Islam, and punishments are pretty hefty (even in this life) as I understand.Recommend

she is non muslim according to our knwoledge but GOD has better knwoledge who is muslim and who is not rather than us…………….Recommend

https://www.facebook.com/syedharismahmood1?ref=tn_tnmn Haris

I think this concept has totally spiraled off in a new direction. When it comes to judgment of your deeds on the day of judgment there is a simple concept taught to us by the Holy Prophet (PBUH). Allah will ask the person, no matter how righteous in this world, whether his deeds were for the pleasure of Allah alone or not. If they take a deity with Allah (do shirk), Allah will tell them to go and ask those gods to reward him for those deeds as they were not done purely for the pleasure of Allah.

Needless to say that muslims will be punished for their sins and misdeeds as well.

I think the Quran and Ahadeeth leave no doubt in the concepts of judgment and accountability. They also leave no doubt in the rights that Islam gives to minorities, protection of whom is the responsibility of the muslims. If they fail this, they will have to answer in front of Allah on the last day. Islam makes no discrimination between muslims and non-muslims in human rights.

“Following the message” is indeed very crucial. But is their any pre-req to it ? We have been given a clear baseline. Every Individual has to answer three questions in grave. “Following a message” is only 3rd question. One needs to pass all the three to be qualified for the heaven. The questions are clearly mentioned in Quran. And answering them correctly to qualify for the heaven is quite logical. Isnt it ? :)

I hope this clarifies… So, before following a message you have to believe in Oneness of God and believe in the person who brought the “message” .. only then comes “following the message” … :)Recommend

Jehanzeb

That’s right .,.,., Every Non-Muslim get the benefits of their good deeds in this world ! Heaven is for Muslims / Believer’s .,.,., That’s what God says .,.,.,
A Christian if he/she believes in God & oneness of God Almighty will go to heaven if lived before the prophecy of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) Recommend

Confused

It always amazes me that even now, in 2012 so many people believe that there is a God. Teresa from what I have heard and read about her was a good person. She was not good because others told her to be good. She was not good because she though she would go to hell if she wasn’t. She was good because that is what being human is all about.
Anyone who is being good just because he believes he would go to hell otherwise, is not really a good person at all.Recommend

faraz

The ‘correct’ belief in God cannot be acquired by logic or empirical evidence; so nobody should enter hell for not believing the right belief. Everybody thinks his belief is right. We think we are right, Mother Teresa thought she was right. Nobody adopts false belief willfully! How can an abstract phenomenon like belief lead you to hell? It’s like saying that if you don’t believe in the existence of e.g. 2379 universes, you will burn in hell forever!Recommend

Sarah muggo

The Quran Clearly states that Muslims Christians Jews and the followers Of haz,rat dawood are all people of the books after all quran bible taurat zaboor were all revealed to His chosen prophets who were not only warners but messengers of glad tidings as well. Being a student of Quran myself trust me tHe quern takes you on a journey of self exploration and your role in this temporary world. As the dalai lama said. When you live it is as if you will never die. But when you are gone it is as if you never were ? Confusing right but I feel that whether mother Teresa goes to heaven or not can only be known to Allah who will give the final judgement. How can it be that such a noble and kind woman whom the world has prayed for and loved her for her Spirit of love to humanity can even be entitled to seat in he’ll. Does not make sense !Recommend

Sane

This is ALLAH only to decide who will be in hell and who will be in heaven. Our job is to pray and hope mercy of ALLAH…..AL RAHMAN, AL RAHEEM.Recommend

Sane

On the judgement day you will accountable only for your doings in this world. No one will ask you as how should Mother Teressa or any one else is to be treated.Recommend

Shah

Very well written article. Most of the comments show a bias towards Tressa and author and are reflection of cognitive dissonance of the readers after going through this very well written piece. Recommend

Samar_Y

Hindus are not going to heaven! No way!

and neither are Christians…not even Muslims…
Nobody is going to heaven,..you’re all staying right here on earth till it explodes! Recommend

Bushra

The comments above clearly show that none of the commentors have read the Quran and prove the writers point in this article that we are judging people without even knowing what our own faith tells us so please for all those referring to the Quran and saying only Muslims are going to heaven heres an eye opener from the Quran:

Suarh 5 verse 69

so please educate yourselves and stop referring to stuff you dont know or even want to understand because the Quran is a book that you all read in another language and dont bother understanding..all you have to do is just read..stop listening or referring to anyone else and just read it cover to cover thats all you need..the muslim state today is truly the saddest state ever and i think us so called muslims should prepare ourselves because theres nowhere in the Quran where God says just because you believe you will go to heaven..and i know this because i have read the Quran..not because someone told me..so wake up!Recommend

@zaidu:
i would rather be good than go to heaven
and i would rather spend time with people who try to be good
than people who feel they don’t need to because they were born in the right placeRecommend

Hala

@Fatima:
helping yourself is better than helping other people?
going to heaven is more important than helping the helpless?Recommend

Zazu

Arguments in Heaven, on the Judgement Day:

God: Teresa, you shalt not enter Heaven.
MT: But God I served humanity, I saved hundreds of Lives. Isnt that what you wanted?
God: Errr.. Yes, but I expected muslims to do that, not you.
MT: But God I believed in you. I always seek your acceptance by helping poor souls.
God: You were given the bounties against your good deeds in the world you were living. Heaven is only for the Muslims, even for the bad ones.
MT: But I didnt had anything in the world of my own. I had dedicated my whole life for serving humanity.

Later on she will be sent to hell, because only the muslims had the birth right to enter heaven. Sounds legit!!Recommend

Mishal Malik

Well I guess we don’t have the right to judge people. ALLAH knows better why and who will be rewarded with his blessings. Raheel Zubairi is indeed right, “This article is a complete reflection of lack of knowledge about Islam” Recommend

Ayesha

@Hussain
According to some Sufi traditions, it is abominable to do good with heaven as the end in mind. Similarly, modern western ethics define goodness viz social utility. A literal interpretation of the Quran leads exactly to the kind of thinking your students have. What you need to teach your students is the progress of the very concept of the philosophy of what is ‘good’ from ancient times to this day. The traditional Islamic narrative on the subject, as derived from the Quran and Hadis, is inconsistent with modern values and must be deleted from our academics.Recommend

She wont go to heaven. May be not because of her religion, but because of racism, nepotism and cruel techniques she used to use on her asylum children Recommend

Indi-Pop

Good work Hussain. Your blog reminded me of a poem I had been taught when I was in middle school. Abou Ben Adhem by James Leigh Hunt. The poem is quite simple but the message is very strong.

Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!)
Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace,
And saw, within the moonlight in his room,
Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom,
An angel writing in a book of gold:—
Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold,
And to the Presence in the room he said
“What writest thou?”—The vision raised its head,
And with a look made of all sweet accord,
Answered “The names of those who love the Lord.”
“And is mine one?” said Abou. “Nay, not so,”
Replied the angel. Abou spoke more low,
But cheerly still, and said “I pray thee, then,
Write me as one that loves his fellow men.”

The angel wrote, and vanished. The next night
It came again with a great wakening light,
And showed the names whom love of God had blessed,
And lo! Ben Adhem’s name led all the rest.Recommend

…

I am simply astonished at the amount of people who follow the Abrahamic faithsRecommend

Irfan Haider

Writer has not explained point of view of Quran and Sunnat.i think writer do not know about islam,this thinking is wrong.you should give both point of views.Recommend

Hardliner

She will NOT!!! U libearls/atheists may deny as much as u want too.. but truth shall prevail despite all ur dislikeness!Recommend

http://habibies.com Habibies

And the so called muslims who bribe, rape, drink alchol & do all the non islamic stuff will surely go to heaven just because they are muslims! LOL on this mentality!Recommend

Abdul Haseeb

The reason that many Muslims believe they’ll go to Jannah no matter what they do is due to lack of understanding of Islam. Islam as opposed to other religions doesn’t guarantee you a place in paradise just because you call yourself “Muslim”, rather one has to follow the command of Allah and the way of the Prophet SAW in each and every aspect of one’s life to deserve Heaven. There are numerous Verses of the Quran on the subject. Other religions and Christianity in particular is based on the childish belief that Jesus PBUH died for their sins and no matter what they will go to heaven. Islam on the other hand tells us that every soul has to bear its own burden on the day of judgement and things like your language, race, clan, tribe or your relatives won’t be able to save you on that day. And yes Mother Teressa won’t be going to Heaven because she didn’t believe in the basic fact that ” there’s no God but Allah and Muhammad SAW is His messenger. “Recommend

Shoaib Khan

Basically all are humans and stand at the same position but what makes you noble is your deeds in the eye of a human where as in ALLAH’s view who follows His message is the noble.
Mother teresa is undoubtedly a noble lady but she had a mind , she was given a sense of choosing wrong and write.
and the point you raised of having birth in a Muslim family is your choice or not but dying a MUSLIM is your own personal choice. I hope you all agree

Just out of curiosity – Will some Muslim friend answer my question. As per your belief, what happened to the people who died before Quran was revealed. Did they go to heaven or hell? If they went to hell for not believing in Allah, how could they be expected to believe in him before they were told about him. If they went to heaven in spite of praying to gods by other names, why did God decide to stop accepting prayers by those names. Recommend

I am sure that student do not exist .. U must be talking to Urself infront of mirror because both questions and answers are typical and stupid Recommend

MAD

A bit of a paradox here. Mother Teresa just one of many non-Muslims who by their deeds and actions have saved and benefited millions. I am not a qualified expert on religion to give an official view or even my personal view on this but every such assessment i have read or heard is usually unanimous on the fact that only a Muslim can enter Jannah. Recommend

http://www.nadir.pk/ Nadir

@Hemant: 4 divine books were sent/revealed before Quran and numerous prophets have been sent before Quran and Muhammad SAW. The Quran starts the story form the first man “Adam” AS and since then there has been proper guidance being sent by Allah in form of books/revelations and prophets.Recommend

Aarez

@MUHAMMAD OMAR:
That is THE point of the author…..that even he doesn’t know whether Mother Teresa is going to heaven or not…..It is God’s decision and the author is willing to let it go on that and not going on to condemn everyone who does not share his beliefs to hellRecommend

sabeen

@Raheel Zubairi:
I agree with you sir! we should care for ourselves that whether we are going in heaven or not instead of poking our nose in others matters. Allah clearly mentioned In Quran what Muslims are required to do and what not..Recommend

Manal Niazi

okay i am not an expert to speak on this issue but i have something that i would like to share. i don’t remember the exact verse or surah where i read this, i’ll try to look for it, but i once remember reading this verse in the quran in which this issue was addressed. i don’t remember the exact words in the exact order but it was about whether non muslims would go to heaven if they do good all their lives and not believe in Allah and in reply to that it was written that their good deeds are of no use because iss se barra zulm kya hai agar Allah ke saath kisi aur ko shareek thehraya jaye or maybe it was ke Allah per emaan na laya jaye. forgive me if i have misquoted or misinterpreted it but this was one question i always had in my mind. also, while reading the quraan’s translation i have come across many verses saying that even non muslims (christians, jews etc) will go to heaven as long as they believe in the existence and oneness of Allah. my interpretation is that the basic criteria is to believe in Allah as the only god and in the day of judgement but it isn’t necessarily the ONLY requirement. even muslims have to be muslims in the truest sense i.e. actually be good before they can enter heaven. if a person is a believer in Allah but doesnt follow any of his teachings and does bad stuff (starting from the moment they become a believer) then they’re just being a hypocrite or munaafiq about it all and munaafiq’s wont be going anywhere near heaven i think. but then again this is just my interpretation, i may or may not be right about it. Recommend

Simplicity is the key

Q: Can Mother Teresa, a non-Muslim, go to heaven?

A: Yes, yes she can. Because Allah’s kindness is for humans, not just for Muslims. And if we Muslims started believing that too, we’d become the best/kindest nation in the world. But no, we have this HAUGHTINESS AND PRIDE, that since we ARE MUSLIMS, no matter what heinous crimes (child abuse, spousal abuse, murder, rape) we WILL ONE DAY go to heaven, while non-Muslims, no matter HOW KIND, HOW GENEROUS and HOW SELFLESS, will burn in Hell.
Then why bother being kind? Or careful? why not drink, gamble and party the night away? After all, you were born a Muslim, so you have your ticket to heaven with you already! Whats a few years in hell? Let the Christians/ jews waste their kindness and good deeds, they’re gonna burn for eternity anyways…? //just so you know, that last para is sarcasm

Another clarification: Christians, Jews, … are both, as the word is put, ‘People of the books’ i.e. they each have a book, and prophets. and as such are just as worthy of the possibility of heaven than any Muslim. I find it laughable when people term them ‘Kafir’ which translates to being a ‘disbeliever’ which is not correct; they still DO believe in their books, and teachings and the concept of one god (even though they might have tainted them themselves) but they are STILL the people of their books! Recommend

Hala

@Hardliner:
and truth is whatever you have chosen to believe?
ok
she won’t go to heaven because you say so?
ok
a murderer rapist psychopath can go to heaven as long as he is a muslim?
ok to that too
if you want be to believe your truths i will
but then heaven doesn’t sound like a very nice placeRecommend

Zeeshan Sheikh

As we know the God’s Law she doesn’t eligible to enter the heaven. But the decision is of God. God will decide her faith.

I know some Liberals who also call steve jobs as a saint and granting him jannah. Imagine a greedy capitalist is entering jannah who takes extortion of every app you designs. ROFLOL.Recommend

Ahmed

I feel that you, as a teacher, were wrong to ask such a question in the first place. It is not up to us to decide whether an individual will be allowed into heaven or not. That is God’s job. He says that we are allowed to marry people of the book, I’m sure he wouldn’t allow us to spend our lives with people we couldn’t go on to meet in heaven, he isn’t that cruel now, is he?Recommend

Manal Niazi

besides, its not our job to decide who goes where. it’s Allah’s job to do that and we all know he can do it much much much better than humans could ever think of and in the most fair way possible. that’s why he is the boss around here. we should focus on making ourselves better people and trying to maximize our own chances instead of worrying about others.Recommend

shafiq janjua

Amazing article . It very, correctly, points out the reason for so many problems faced by Pakistan today.Recommend

BlackJack

Heaven sounds rather scary and forbidding – hardly any of the people I know or like or respect is going to make it there; hell may suffer from over-population but I hope that adequate real estate has been provisioned since 75% of humanity is destined to go there. But your passion for this place that none of you have seen or have any means of confirming is truly fascinating. Someone rightly mentioned the cognitive dissonance that many of you are going through is because the person in question is Mother Teresa – most ordinary non-muslims (your neighbors/ classmates etc) are probably consigned to hellfire without a second thought! Thank God for Pakistan, even if he doesn’t let me into heaven, he has already answered my prayers.Recommend

Waqar

@Simplicity is the key:
What happened to people here….. u better read this page.

@Abdul Haseeb:
Let me correct you Christian faith does not claim that every Christian will go to Heaven. Our concept of life is simple and straight follow the teaching of Christ and on the day of judgement we will trialed and tested for our deeds.

If being a MUSLIM guarantees a one way ticket to Heaven then Why God Almighty made so many religions or lets say the ilhe-kitab?

If pathway of heaven is so straight then why everyone does not end up on the being Muslim?Recommend

I don’t believe in heaven, but if there is one, Mother Teresa is most certainly in there.

If God is merciful, there’s no reason why He would pick a bigoted, self-righteous follower over a kind, selfless non-follower.Recommend

Zeeshan Sheikh

@Hemant In islam we have a term haneef for the people who doesn’t receive the message of Islam. they would have a chance to enter in paradise even today, God knows best. as far as before Islam is concerned, Islam was still existing which is now known as christianity and before that it was judaism all comes from Abrahimic faith started from Adam.Recommend

Hemant

@Nadir:
Thanks for attempting to answer. But as you say, four divine books were sent. So the people who were following those books before Quran was revealed, are eligible for Jannah but not if they are following it after Quran was revealed. The Almighty even chose to be known by a different name and rejected the older names. Please note that my questions are with reference to this blogs and comments of others. For e.g. Haris says “If they take a deity with Allah (do shirk), Allah will tell them to go and ask those gods to reward him for those deeds as they were not done purely for the pleasure of Allah”. So if the Almighty was happy with those names at some time in the past, what is the logic of him now rejecting prayers made to that nameRecommend

G. Din

I refuse to go to Heaven if all of whom I find there are Muslim. How intolerably boring would it be without all my Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Christian, atheist and agnostic friends I have? With such a God who admits Muslims only to his house, how can one be a friend? What manner of God is He anyway? Yuk, what a morose and despondent life would it be even if they gave me 72 shallow-minded hoors for company!Recommend

Hemant

@Nadir:
@Nadir:
Thanks for attempting to answer. But as you say, four divine books were sent. So the people who were following those books before Quran was revealed, are eligible for Jannah but not if they are following it after Quran was revealed. The Almighty even chose to be known by a different name and rejected the older names. Please note that my questions are with reference to this blogs and comments of others. For e.g. Haris says “If they take a deity with Allah (do shirk), Allah will tell them to go and ask those gods to reward him for those deeds as they were not done purely for the pleasure of Allah”. So if the Almighty was happy with those names at some time in the past, what is the logic of him now rejecting prayers made to that nameRecommend

Fahim

@Hemant:

All those people who died before Quran was revealed were to follow the shariat of the previous Prophet which was Isa [A.S] (Jesus) PBUH. But it should be clear that the Christians polluted the shariat of Jesus (A.S) and declared Jesus the sn of Allah and that he took the burden of all there sins with his death which is wrong. Those who followed him rightly were destined for heaven and those who polluted his shariat were on the wrong path….

@Raheel Zubairi:
You said;Stop caring about Mother Teresa or Hitler going to heaven for saving children or killing jews which is a good thing for muslims.

I never knew Hitler was God’s man doing God’s job.Thanks for enlightening me today,all these years I considered him a brutal,barbaric man,hopefully God will forgive me for that.Now I believe he was pious ,virtuous man furthering God’s mission, However he won’t go to heaven not having recited “Kalima” right?.—– Learnt a lot today. Recommend

Ahmed khan

It is impossible for a non-Muslim to go to heaven. Being “good” by some human definition of good is not good enough. You must have professed Islam, submitted to the Shariah, done your namaz etc to go to heaven. That is the reason why we are keen on converting the kafirs etc. it is really for their own good. Much like children they do not realize that now. Liberal talk is ok. But let us not dilute the religion of our Prophet (pbuh).Recommend

Wishy-Washy

Some one said that anyone who believes in ‘Oneness of God’ can only go to Heaven.

So that leaves out all the ‘Polytheists’ from the race.
Interesting, so all the Hindus, no matter how good karma they do in their lifetime are eternally damned??
And what about all the pagans (including pre-islam arabians) before the rise of the “Abrahamic’ faith?

HaHa….The ancient Romans, Egyptians, Persians might have built empires, which cannot be replicated ever, but for what??
They must be burning in hell-fire, as we speak!Recommend

Waqar

Writer should go through Surat ‘Ali `Imran [3:85]. As per my little knowledge, Non-Muslims will not enter in paradise. Believe in Kamla Shadhat is a MUST. Its very rare, that mother tresa wasn’t aware of Religion ISLAM.

As per kind and pious non-Muslims are concerned, they will get reward in this world. not here after.

Allah is the Most Merciful! Final decision will be His. But for now, we have been given guidelines in Quran and we should stick to these.

and it’s Allah who puts in your heart to make you Accept Islam.Recommend

Fahim Alavi

A very weak article, 80% of educated elite mentioned in article but haven’t mentioned the total he/she queried i.e. 80% of 10 is 8. The person answered the questiosn has very less information about islam as asnwers are given in such a way to create a wider trap. Seems like Noora kushti and do post my comment for the sake of great lady Teresa Recommend

Enlighted

Blockquote Student: “Yes, evil Muslims will be punished for some time, and will be sent to heaven after the punishment.”

You know this is what the jews believe as well, that they’ll goto heaven because they were the members of the first monotheist religion. This is a common misconception which is pierced into our mids that no matter what we do in this life we will goto heaven because we are muslims. It Disturbs me greatly that no one, not even the educated elite even bothered to look into the translation of the quran, My advice : Pick up an easy english quran which you will understand easily and empower yourself. So More Following the religion i.e Haqooq ul ibad, Tolerance, Charity and less dwelling in the fact that each muslim has a one way first class ticket to heaven regardless of what he does. Recommend

Waqar

As per my little knowledge, Non-Muslims will not enter in paradise. Believe in Kamla Shadhat is a MUST. Its very rare, that mother tresa wasn’t aware of Religion ISLAM.

As per kind and pious non-Muslims are concerned, they will get reward in this world. not here after.

Allah is the Most Merciful! Final decision will be His. But for now, we have been given guidelines in Quran and we should stick to these.

and it’s Allah who puts in your heart to make you Accept Islam.Recommend

SALEEM TAHIR

Mother Teresa was a saint , agreat humanitarian ,may Allah Bless her and enable us to follow her foot steps.
As an Ahmadi Muslim ,I believe she is already in Heaven
Whose heaven are we talking about.anyway ?
Heavens of Allah or heavens of Mullah ?Recommend

http://think-islam.blogspot.com PostMan

@zahra.mohammed: ‘Read our comment policy! Quotations from any religious text are not allowed.’
Well the topic is such that it will end up having comments with references to the scripture. I will not quote scripture on a music video blog now would I? I commented on this blog with reference to the scripture and it did not get published although I can can see couple of other comments which do contain scripture and are allowed. I suggest you allow quotation of scripture where confusion or misconcepts can be cleared. Recommend

Ch. Allah Daad

No one can question Allah’s authority nor anyone knows what His plans are about Holy Mother. The important thing is, would she like to go to Heaven? As per her record, she would like to stay in Hell, because of its residents pain and suffering. Also no sane person would like to go to “empty” Heaven and live alone there.Recommend

elementary

@Waqar:
You said:and it’s Allah who puts in your heart to make you Accept Islam.
Then why does He punish those,in whose heart He did not “put” to accept Islam.Recommend

US hindu

We will go to hell fine………..but are in hell…………..let me enjoy and go to hellRecommend

Danish Ahmed

If she was considering Jesus as God then will got to hell….the biggest mistake Christians do to secure a place in Hell not heaven…rest wont be an issue to be in Heaven.

Mr Hussain. I am very much surprised that you pointed out the “Matter of Faith” as “First step towards Violence .”.Is the faith of that student “Bitting” Mother Terasa’s Status? Whether a person have helped thousands,or millions even billions, but not embraced islam, will not go to Heaven. It is among those things,Which ALLAH told us before.You must believe it Totally.
@Zazu, You must first check ur faith. It seems u Like to make jokes of God and the Doomsday. Even u are such afraid of being noticed that you even not write your actual name and a fake one instead. ShameRecommend

Procrastinator

Mother Teresa – Not in gazillion years as she lived all her life a non-muslim

she would have if she had born muslim or converted. Killing a few infidels or blowing up in the middle of high street in kuffar would have guaranteed seat in heaven.

PS: O great soul of mother dearly missed! I beg for your forgiveness for writing this to make a few brain dead people realize the flaw in their thoughts, knowing well that these would no way bring life to even a single brain cell of these people.Recommend

http://www.nerdcrunch.com NerdCrunch

Dear Author,

It is mentioned in Quran that all sins will be forgiven by Allah but ‘shirk’. If she has done ‘shirk’ then she can save all the worlds but she wont go to heaven period.

Open Quran and find out for yourself. People will not go to heaven just because you think they do what is right, they will go to heaven when they do what they are told to do. Quran is divine, that’s what Muslims believe and we are to follow what is written in it. You can brand people with this mind set in whatever way you please but it will never change. This is part of belief of Muslims and it will stay this way.Recommend

Mohinder sandhu

I don’t wanna go to heaven, all my friends will be in hell , I have to be with my friends. Then what i am gonna do all day in heaven with 70 beautiful women.With 70 beautiful women i may not be able to pray.I am disillusioned. Recommend

akash

21st century!! wow I am amazed we are still discussing this. How can one God or religion be different from others!! They all teach love and peace. So if I go to mosque and pray or go to church(which i do time to time), although I am not a muslim or christian, will their Gods turn me away ??

And i never thought there is something like “their God” and “my God” i thought God is same for everyone!! Am i missing something here ??

Or do you guys do not see these universal values of all religions? Just amazed really.

And if this is the mindset in Pakistan, no wonder people of minority sects are oppressed.Recommend

Waqar

@elementary:

Allah clearly tells us that we need to struggle hard in order to find the right path. Allah will only guide those who actually struggle to be guided. If Allah has already predetermined who would go to hell and heaven without giving us free will then it would be useless for Allah to tell us to strive to be good. So Allah guides those who strive and put an effort to want to be guided. If you move away from Allah, he will let you. He won’t stop you and he won’t forcibly bring you back. If however you move towards him, he will move even more towards you.That’s what “guides whomever He Wills” means.

There is a brain given to us by Allah so that we can choose between right and wrong. We talk a lot about haqqul-ibad these days, but this thing falls in Huquq-Allah category.Recommend

Rex Minor

Let me relate the incidence in Prophet of God, our beloved Mohammad(pbuh), who saw a young boy anxiously preparing himself for prayers and remarked to himself that this young boy is destined for paradise in heavens after his demise.

And prompt came the reply from the Angel Gabriel, O’h No, this young boy is going to grow up and become the worst criminal in his later life and hell shall await his destiny after death, is the Commandment Of God the almighty. This resulted in the sadness appearing on the grim face of Mohammad(pbuh), which the young boy immediately saw and remarked, O’h Prophet of God, why has sadness appeared on your face all of a sudden? And the Prophet was obliged to tell the young boy what he had just heard from the angel.

The boy’s reaction was straight and simple; O’h Prophet of God, I am trying to do what my duty towards the God almighty is and God must do what is God’s own will.

The Angel gabriel instantly told the Prophet of God that God has now commanded to grant the young boy a very long life, involved in all the tasks which Mohammad(pbuh) had preached to the followers and a paradise shall be the reward for his efforts.

The decision of granting a paradise or hell is alone in the hands of God the almighty one and no human. The so called Pakistani muslims have a long way to learn about Islam.

Disgusting society and value systems! Should live on a separate planet.Recommend

Waqar

@akash:
Does 21st changes any religion or its values? :D
and love and peace Only wont take you to heaven, you need to have a believe in Oneness of Allah and His last prophet Muhammad SAW and their preaching which also includes Love and peace along with other social and humanitarian values.Recommend

3rdRockfromtheSun

Ask an evangelical Christian the same question about Edhi, and you will get the same answer – NO, becuase he wasn’t a Christian!

It would be much better if humanity focuses of doing good here and now, rather than worrying about what happens in supposed “after-life”.

God is to adults, what Santa Claus is to kids – man-made and imaginary.Recommend

@Loneliberal PK:I don’t believe in heaven
So, you believe in hell to where you are destined.Recommend

rahul sinha

@akash:
Mr. WAQAR has made it clear, i think for people like you, who still believe in tolerance.

actually, this is a trait common to every abhramnic faith, not even christians can claim exception.

infact, they do believe that until and unless you accept CHRIST as your saviour, you are doomed.
and lesser about judaism, the better. because it is at the root of all this….Recommend

Maulana

No religion guarantees entrance into paradise or heaven just because you were born in or converted to that religion.Period. God does not discriminate that way. No religious book (not some crackpot’s interpretation) says that just because being a certain religion follower you will be granted access to heaven, all religion tell us that we should follow GOD’s message of peace, love, unity, compassion, devotion etc, meaning that God want us to be a good human first, he doesn’t envisioned us to be a Muslim or a Hindu or a Jew or a Christian. He want us to be a good human being. That’s how the GOD identify us and that’s how GOD judges us. His only judgement criteria is that how we fared on the scale of humanity. That is his universal scale of measuring whether we are allowed entrance to heaven or not. That guarantees that a good muslim, or for that matter good hindu/jew/christian/sikh/jain/buddhist etc have equal probability of reaching heaven if they have performed equally good deeds in the eyes of God. Only this is his universal law, rest is myth.Recommend

sehar

the problem with muslims these days, esp pakistani muslims is that they will believe the age-old lies that jahil molvis have invented in the name of islam, rather than opening the holy book and reading it with translation and trying to understand it. if all of us started reading quran with translations a lot of the ills that plague us will be erased. please refer to the following translations. i believe tht mother taresa is janate; the ultimate decider if His supreme being, but these translations are enough for me to believe that she will be sent to heaven on the day of judgment.

“Surely those who believe, and those who are Jews, and the Christians, and the Sabians, whoever believes in Allah and the Final Day and does good, they shall have their reward from their Lord, and there is no fear for them, nor shall they grieve.” [Quran 2:62]

“Surely those who believe and those who are Jews and the Sabians and the Christians whoever believes in Allah and the Final Day and does good– they shall have no fear nor shall they grieve.” [Quran 5:69]

“Surely those who believe and those who are Jews and the Sabeans and the Christians and the Magians and those who associate (others with Allah)– surely Allah will decide between them on the day of resurrection; surely Allah is a witness over all things.” [Quran 22:17]

@Mariam khan: “MUSLIM – means a person who is doing the action of Islam – meaning a person who submits to Allah on His terms and does so in complete peace without resisting Allah’s Orders.”

I thought God controls everything. When times comes for one to go no one can do anything.
Every one has to submit to his term, there is no choice. I never knew people could resist God’s orders. God does not need humans to protect him and his religion. God makes people follow his laws and does not need humans to make others follow his laws.Recommend

Vikram

@Hala: Going to heaven is imaginary. Helping helpless is real.Recommend

Spacedecorator

Why there are uneducated and anti Islamic people are writing for this blog can’t these guys find a real writer who is not partial. I am tired of this anti Islamic movement trying to create confusions among youth. Why should I care if mother Teresa is going to heaven or not . It’s not my place to say or decide. There are more important things to doRecommend

akash

@WAQAR Does 21st changes any religion or its values? :D
and love and peace Only wont take you to heaven, you need to have a believe in Oneness of Allah and His last prophet Muhammad SAW and their preaching which also includes Love and peace along with other social and humanitarian values.

I thought i already believe in oneness of Allah. Its just that i call him by different name ? it doesn’t count I guess, does it?

@Rahul Sinha
Thanks for enlightening me, and if that’s the case no wonder every religion has not only found place in India but thrived. Because we Hindus are never that ‘strict’ or ‘rigid’ about “right God” or “right path” , I think I can find Ram, Allah or Christ anywhere. Recommend

Fazal Ur Rehman

Let us see what Allah Almighty has to say about this. Allah says:“Verily! Those who believe and those who are Jews and Christians, and Sabians, whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day and do righteous good deeds shall have their reward with their Lord, on them shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve”
(Holy Qur’an, 2: 62)

Ibn Kathir, with reference to Ibn Abi Hatim, narrates in his tafsir of the verse above:
‘Salman Farisi (R.A.) said, ‘This verse was revealed when I made a mention of the of the prayers and fasting of those believers whom I had met before coming to the Holy Prophet (S.A.W.W)’.
Which means the believers BEFORE The Holy Prophet (S.A.W.W) got the first revelation.

However, Allah also says:“And whoever seeks a religion other than Islam, it will never be accepted of him, and in the Hereafter he (or she) will be one of the losers.”
(Holy Qur’an, 3: 85)

So if Mother Teresa was at the time before the advent of Islam, she would have definitely gone to heaven. However as she lived in our contemporary times the matter rests in the decision of Allah Almighty. Who are we to judge? Perhaps she realized and repented at the end? Only Allah knows. So let us not pass our judgement when we already have Qur’an and Sunnah for our guidance. Recommend

Vikram

@Shoaib Khan: So all talibans and suicide bombers will go to heaven because they are Muslims and mother Tressa will not make it to heaven. So all people who were born before Prophet Mohammed discovered Islam, will go to hell. What will happen to Prophets grand fathers and great grand fathers.Recommend

Sulman

HOTTEST ISSUE in this country , Group of peoples can talk many hours on it without any final answer.

First one need to understand what is Religion ? The thing show you right and wrong ? YES!
I have a Question . what are Parents ? They also tell us the same thing .( leaving this topic here,)

How some one can decide who is going to heaven or hell ? A BOOK ? No but the writer of BOOKS
My mom always tell me thats , always think like kids no matter how become big you are,
“IF you do the right things God will reward you and you certainly go to heaven” and “IF you do bad then sorry child GOD have mercy on you”

Holy book are for individual refinements, I am using it for my self not to judge others but to refine myself . Thats it.

Now the first statements of mine, My religion is my MOM and DAD . some of you thing this is crazy and kid talk . then you can say that,

Mother Teresa will certainly go to Heaven , (she was not just female lady .. if you can read it she was Mother ) and i know no one can think that their mother go to hell ,

HOTTEST ISSUE in this country , Group of peoples can talk many hours on it without any final answer.

First one need to understand what is Religion ? The thing show you right and wrong ? YES!
I have a Question . what are Parents ? They also tell us the same thing .( leaving this topic here,)

How some one can decide who is going to heaven or hell ? A BOOK ? No but the writer of BOOKS
My mom always tell me thats , always think like kids no matter how become big you are,
“IF you do the right things God will reward you and you certainly go to heaven” and “IF you do bad then sorry child GOD have mercy on you”

Holy book are for individual refinements, I am using it for my self not to judge others but to refine myself . Thats it.

Now the first statements of mine, My religion is my MOM and DAD . some of you thing this is crazy and kid talk . then you can say that,

Mother Teresa will certainly go to Heaven , (she was not just female lady .. if you can read it she was Mother ) and i know no one can think that their mother go to hell ,Recommend

akash

@Rahul Sinha
*actually, this is a trait common to every abhramnic faith, not even christians can claim exception.

infact, they do believe that until and unless you accept CHRIST as your saviour, you are doomed.*

That may be true, but i think western societies also question or criticize their religious practices which are out of date.Recommend

Atheist

It may be written in Koran that only Muslims can enter heaven, no arguments here. But what is the proof that whatever is written in Koran is truth?? Is it not just the belief without any proof ?? or is there any proof like someone visiting heaven & confirming to find only Muslims there?? I am curious…Recommend